What memories do you have of wrestlers appearing on tv programmes? I know recently there was Giant Haystacks and Johnny Wilson appearing on Runaround. I think wrestlers occasionally turned up on game shows and things like the Generation Game. I remember seeing Brian Maxine in a seventies comedy called THE FENN STREET GANG he did not have a speaking part was just one of a gang of heavies belonging to superb actor the late George Baker. I also remember Adrian Street appearing in a wrestling play in 1973 the BBC they did a series of six plays on sporting subjects Cricket, Football, and one was wrestling. My dad insisted on watching the bloody news and when it finished I quickly turned to BBC2 to see the last two minutes GRRR..... Perhaps most famous is the AVENGERS featuring Jackie Pallo this is still repeated on itv3 or 4? Anyway he does speak and there is a fight scene at the end I think in a graveyard involving Pallo and Honor Blackman. The newspapers made a big thing of it, claimed she had knocked him out! LOL! Possibly he did get injured in rehearsals I have no idea but it became one of those urban myths. Put it this way....to my knowledge neother Jackie Pallo or Honor ever confirmed or denied it, no doubt it was great publicity for the show
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I think I have another clipping related to this incident but haven't been able to find it: